Jack Cole, Just Looking - 1954

No thanks, just looking
Jack Cole 1954

The Grain That Built A Hemisphere

1943


1943 film about corn; produced for Walt Disney studios for the Canadian government. This animated short was nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Documentary" in 1943.

Saint Gloria and The Troll -1974

Ed Paschke 1974

Day at the Beach

Punch - Aug 26 1980

Conflict of the Sexes

Scene - A Pictureesque Fishing Village on the East Coast

Lor' bless you, Sir. You won't get no place 'ere in August. Leastways not at an evenin' effok. If you was to come down toward the latter 'alf of next week you might have a chance of a mornin'

The debate over using lands for recreational of productive purposes continues.

Eldon Dedini - 1963

...and yet, Kitty, in many, many ways I'm very poor 

 

Alone I Didn't Do It

Punch - 1908

Mr Taft (Breathless But Triumpahnt) "Thank You Teddy

Seven Wise Dwarfs

1941


In 1941 Walt Disney produced this short film, which promotes Canadian War Bonds, for the Canadian government. See Donalds Decision

Erich Sokol, Fate - 1959

 

It must be fate -- my wife and your husband breaking their legs on the same day

By Erich Sokol December 1959

Donald's Decision

1941


Walt Disney produced this short film, which promotes Canadian War Bonds, for the Canadian government. Produced before the US was at war.

The New Spirit (1942)

1942


In 1942 Walt Disney Studios created this short film for the US Treasury Department. Donald Duck learns that his tax dollars are going toward the war effort.

It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1943 for Best Documentary.

Gahan Wilson - 1958

Looks like the end of civilization as they know it

Skylark Poetry

Punch - Aug 26th 1908

Poet to blackbird "For goodness sake be quiet! I am trying to write about a skylark."

"It's like the gun lobby guys say -- Laws interfere wit' us sportsmen" 1965

Better than a Newspaper

Punch - Sept 24 1908

Screen for Breakfast Table (Better than a Newspaper)

Still applies in an iPad age.

Gahan Wilson - 1963

Harvey! You come down here this instant!

Uncontrolled Campaign Spending V 92nd Congress - November 17, 1971

For the championship of the United States

Somethings never change.

Campaign finance spending soared in the 1960s. The cost of the 1968 presidential campaign was $300 million — almost double that of 1964. With Republican coffers in 1971 comfortably filled while the Democrats were some $9 million in debt, the Democratic-controlled Congress considered proposals to provide public financing. But President Richard Nixon threatened a veto. Eventually, they compromised on some public financing of presidential elections starting in 1976. Since then, loopholes in the laws have permitted almost unlimited political spending far in excess of the government's contributions and of all previous campaigns. In the year 2000 campaign, more than $300 million had already been spent on political ads alone before the end of September. This cycle is set up to be the most expensive in history.